Dear Editor:
I am writing in response to a letter I read in the East Tennessean dated Feb. 19 (Letter writers must think independently). Joseph Martin wrote about letters written by Zackary Cope and myself. Although I do not pretend to speak for Zackary, I do feel that I have a right to explain my own viewpoints in accordance to the “planet that I live on,” since he doesn’t seem to know.
I will not be challenging any of his statements except one. I do my own thinking and believe in what I said. During Clinton’s presidency, America produced the longest peacetime economic expansion in our history and the lowest peacetime unemployment since 1957. Call it “regurgitating endless rhetoric and B.S.” if you will, but that is also fact.
As for NAFTA, “welfare, unemployment, disability, public housing, etc.,” the president can’t override one part of the government – meaning Congress could have prevented the legislation from going into effect if they didn’t agree with it.
So, don’t say we couldn’t have done it without Congress when it comes to Clinton’s accomplishments; and then blame what you don’t like on Clinton. The “Republican-majority Congress” that everyone keeps talking about would not have accomplished these acts on their own and that is what I know.
I am glad that Joseph seems to know everything there is to know about politics; but for everyone concerned, I am from planet Earth. I also live in America.
Therefore, I am allowed to have any opinion on politics that I wish; and until there is a more effective way of knowing what is happening in Washington without help from “the media and the politicians themselves”, I will just form these opinions from whatever information I can find.
Britni L. Demma

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